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Thursday August 26, 1937

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The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

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Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen

British ambassador to China Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen was wounded when a Japanese plane strafed and attacked his limosuine.

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Turkey warned that any submarines that entered the Turkish Straits without identifying themselves would be attacked

Mysterious attacks began on neutral shipping bound for Republican ports.

Image result for august 26, 1937A Catapult assist launch of the Goddard Rocket was employed; achieved a maximum altitude of 2,000 feet; rocket corrected its flight path seven times during the flight.

 

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune August 26, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune August 26, 1937
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Wednesday August 26, 1936

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diary 2The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more

Ethelyn Danis and Jean Stevenson came up to visit awhile and invited me and Dit to a luncheon tomorrow at the Grill  Room of the Hilton at 12:30.  Ethelyn arrived from Dallas Sunday or Monday. She is just the same as ever-even with an M.A. She and Jean both walked with Dit tonight for the first time in a long time.  Very confusing letter from Ty-Ty n Mary Jo, Seems I did wrong to buy the blue wool!

Here’s what else was happening 80-years-ago today:

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The Anglo-Egyptian treaty was signed. Britain recognized Egyptian independence and agreed to withdraw all troops from Egypt except those required to defend the Suez Canal.

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The BBC broadcast its first television programme, a variety show called Here’s Looking at You.

 

 

 

 

Image result for conscription spanish war signConscription(a draft) was introduced in Nationalist-held parts of Spain.

Shells from a Nationalist attack on Irun fell on the French side of the border. French authorities advised peasants to evacuate the area

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune August 26, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune August 26, 1936
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Saturday August 15, 1936

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diary 2The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more

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A new Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker magazine

The Battle of Almendrajelo ended in a Nationalist victory followed by a massacre. The Nationalists killed about 1,000 civilians.

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The Earl Baldwin of Bewdley

Stanley Baldwin announced a British embargo of arms to Spain.

Father Coughlin: Radio Priest, Depression Demagogue

Father Charles Coughlin endorsed third-party candidate William Lemke

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 11 of the 1936 Olympic Games

 

Medal summary

Men’s events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle
details		 Ferenc Csik
 Hungary		 Masanori Yusa
 Japan		 Shigeo Arai
 Japan
400 m freestyle
details		 Jack Medica
 United States		 Shunpei Uto
 Japan		 Shozo Makino
 Japan
1500 m freestyle
details		 Noboru Terada
 Japan		 Jack Medica
 United States		 Shunpei Uto
 Japan
100 m backstroke
details		 Adolph Kiefer
 United States		 Al Vande Weghe
 United States		 Masaji Kiyokawa
 Japan
200 m breaststroke
details		 Tetsuo Hamuro
 Japan		 Erwin Sietas
 Germany		 Reizo Koike
 Japan
4×200 m freestyle relay
details		  Japan (JPN)
Shigeo Arai
Shigeo Sugiura
Masaharu Taguchi
Masanori Yusa		  United States (USA)
Ralph Flanagan
John Macionis
Jack Medica
Paul Wolf		  Hungary (HUN)
Oszkár Abay-Nemes
Ferenc Csik
Ödön Gróf
Árpád Lengyel

Women’s events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle
details		 Rie Mastenbroek
 Netherlands		 Jeannette Campbell
 Argentina		 Gisela Arendt
 Germany
400 m freestyle
details		 Rie Mastenbroek
 Netherlands		 Ragnhild Hveger
 Denmark		 Lenore Wingard
 United States
100 m backstroke
details		 Nida Senff
 Netherlands		 Rie Mastenbroek
 Netherlands		 Alice Bridges
 United States
200 m breaststroke
details		 Hideko Maehata
 Japan		 Martha Genenger
 Germany		 Inge Sørensen
 Denmark
4×100 m freestyle relay
details		  Netherlands (NED)
Rie Mastenbroek
Willy den Ouden
Jopie Selbach
Tini Wagner		  Germany (GER)
Gisela Arendt
Ruth Halbsguth
Leni Lohmar
Ingeborg Schmitz		  United States (USA)
Mavis Freeman
Bernice Lapp
Olive McKean
Katherine Rawls

Italy won gold in football..

Hitler Reacts to Kiss from Excited American Woman

 

The NOAA ship Fathomer aground on a coral reef in the Philippines after the typhoon of August 15, 1936.
The NOAA ship Fathomer aground on a coral reef in the Philippines after the typhoon of August 15.
Chicago Daily Tribune August 15, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune August 15, 1936
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Wednesday July 29, 1936

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The Olympic Torch Relay is closing in on the Olympic Stadium.  Germany was the first to start the tradition

A Yugoslavian athlete hands over the Olympic torch

The Nationalists captured Huelva.

The Berliner Tageblatt revealed that Germany had begun to refortify Heligoland, contradicting its denial of July 13. The matter came up again in the House of Commons where Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden expressed the government’s feeling that “individual matters of this kind, though they cannot pass unobserved, should not be raised at a moment and in a manner which might react unfavourably” on negotiations underway for a new European peace settlement.

July 29, 1936: Accompanied by 20 sea lions brought to the Chicago Zoological garden at Brookfield, a huge elephant seal was urged into the new sea lion grotto by a group of keepers.A new elephant seal  accompanied by 20 sea lions  are brought to their new home at the Chicago Zoological garden at Brookfield.

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune July 29, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune July 29, 1936

 

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Tuesday July 28, 1936

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Actress Mary Astor fights for custody of her 4-year-old daughter in the bitter divorce from Dr. Franlkyn Thorpe.

The Burgos Junta declared total martial law in all Nationalist-held parts of Spain.

The Spanish Republic confiscated all church property in Spain to consolidate its resources to fight the uprising.

German aircraft arrived in Morocco to assist the Nationalist side.

 

Charles Lindbergh accepts a ceremonial sword from Hermann Göring

The Lindberghs met Hermann and Emmy Göring at a luncheon

Chicago Daily Tribune July 28, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune July 28, 1936

Francisco Franco granted an interview to Jay Allen of the Chicago Tribune in which he claimed that his government was neither monarchist nor fascist, but “Nationalist Spanish”, and that he had launched the rebellion to save Spain from communism. When asked what form his government would take, Franco replied it would be a “military dictatorship” with a plebiscite later on “for the nation to decide what it wanted.”

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Wednesday July 22, 1936

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Southern Pacific RR

 

Gaines left at 8:30 P.M. We watched his train pull out and surely regretted his going so soon –

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A strong windstorm, possibly a tornado, moved across the Iowa State Teachers College campus and destroyed the wooden football field bleachers.  The high in Sioux City reached 105 degrees

Aftermath of the July 22, 1936 storm.

A new plane is tested by Amelia Earhardt 

LA Times July 22, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune July 2, 1936 pg 2
Chicago Daily Tribune July 2, 1936 pg 2

 

British authorities warned Spanish warships that if shells continued to fall on Gibraltar, British artillery would return fire.

Charles Lindbergh and wife Anne arrived in Berlin. Although ostensibly a goodwill visit, the American Embassy had invited Lindbergh in the hope that the German Air Ministry would try to impress him by inviting him to inspect their planes and air bases. That way, Lindbergh could take notes on the Luftwaffe’s capabilities and report back to the U.S. government. As it turned out, that is exactly what happened

Chicago Daily Tribune July 22, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune July 22, 1936
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